South Australia warned on the risks of the nuclear industry
‘Don’t underestimate risks’: Fukushima investigator’s words of advice for South Australia’s nuclear industry, SMH 13 Mar 15, A Fukushima nuclear disaster investigator has warned South Australians to consider risks carefully before getting involved in an expanded nuclear industry.
A royal commission will look into the potential to expand South Australia’s role in the nuclear industryfrom next week and will include the consideration of power generation.
Professor Nobumasa Akiyama was a member of the independent investigation panel into the triple nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, Japan, four years ago this week, which started following damage caused by a tsunami.
Some 120,000 people are still unable to return to their homes because of high radiation levels.
Professor Akiyama had a word of warning for South Australians. “Think about the unthinkable,” he said.
“I think that’s the important principle, to think about the risk of the nuclear power plants.”
He said Japanese people had underestimated the risk…… “In the case of Japan, people experienced the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island accidents, but saw it as the accidents of others.
“A nuclear accident anywhere is a nuclear accident everywhere.”
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